Legacy Survey of Space and Time Launches with Record Camera
The cosmos is about to get a close-up of appropriately epic proportions. Resting on a Chilean mountaintop, the…
Launching from 2 continents: Germany’s Isar Aerospace leases Canadian pad for $150 million
German company Isar Aerospace is expanding its operations overseas after signing an agreement with Canada’s Maritime Launch Services…
We assumed water had to be delivered to planets by comets or asteroids — but a 2025 Nature study found that sub-Neptunes, the most common type of planet in the galaxy, can forge their own oceans by reacting hydrogen atmospheres with molten rock deep inside their cores
For a long time the story of how a planet gets its water had one main plot. Water…
Titan has rivers, rainfall, lakes and a slow hydrological cycle exactly like Earth’s, except that every drop of it is liquid methane and the rock the rivers run over is water ice
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only place besides Earth known to have standing liquid on its surface,…
SpaceX ignites all 33 powerful engines on Starship booster test ahead of Flight 13 launch
It looks like SpaceX’s next Starship flight is on the horizon, and it may lift off sooner than…
NASA sure seems to be asking an awful lot of private space stations
And in this document, NASA has provided guidance. Quite a lot of it. Requirements are the key element…
The space industry is weighing ambitious hiring against heritage
Space is hard, as the decades-old adage goes. For much of the industry’s history, “rocket science” was as…
SpaceX launch creates colorful ‘jellyfish’ in the night sky photo of the day for July 10, 2026
A “space jellyfish” cloud lit up the early morning sky following a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch. (Image credit:…
Rocket Report: “Panic” over Transporter availability; Isar to launch from Canada
Welcome to Edition 9.02 of the Rocket Report! Our attention in the coming days turns to Asia, where…
Space capitalism needs more than a bull market
By most measures, commercial space is thriving. Washington produced a flurry of activity over the past year: two…
Astronaut reveals the tiny glowing garden inside the International Space Station where scientists are learning how to grow food for future Moon and Mars missions |
The pink light visible in recent timelapse footage from the International Space Station is not a camera effect…
What is the Kardashev scale used by Elon Musk?
Elon Musk’s plans for the future of SpaceX, and humanity, are rooted in an idea conceived in the…